Hawaii already levies a 10.25% tax on short-term rentals. On January 1, the tax will rise to 11%. Hawaii’s counties separately charge a 3% lodging tax, and travelers also have to pay the 4.712% ...

This is the world's only known caterpillar to live with and benefit from spiders, according to Daniel Rubinoff, a professor of entomology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and lead author of ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Josh Green is the governor of Hawaii. Before being elected governor in 2022, he worked as an emergency room doctor and family physician in Hawaii for over 20 years.

Hawaii is still struggling to entice visitors back to the islands in numbers it had prior to the pandemic. Visitor arrivals dropped dramatically following the 2023 Maui wildfires. Now, 19 months ...

Disney’s 20th Century Studios is saying “aloha” to Martin Scorsese‘s Hawaii-set crime thriller starring Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt (with whom the concept and film ...

She was struck with a rock and hospitalized in critical condition, police said. A doctor is suspected of trying to kill his wife by hitting her with a rock and attempting to push her off a hiking ...

Shannon Wianecki grew up in Hawaii and writes about the Islands regularly. Hilo sits between the sea, the often-snow-capped summit of Mauna Kea and the smoldering Kilauea volcano. Twice swept ...

The geologic story of Hawaii has historically been one of ascension. More than a million years ago, when the Pacific Island Plate moved atop a volcanic hotspot rising through the Earth’s crust ...

In a letter to customers announcing the closure, Shaka Tea said that while it has had “some success,” it has also “experienced significant economic and ...

Along with leading the successful campaign to make the shaka Hawaii’s official state gesture, Steve Sue produced the fascinating documentary “Shaka, A Story of Aloha,” which will screen on ...

Glenn Wakai, who co-introduced the bill, in a statement. “The shaka captures the goodness of Hawaii. It’s a ubiquitous gesture that is offered with the best of intentions. … Since the shaka ...

By Kevin Dolak Taylor Wily, who rose to fame on the sumo circuit in the late 1980s before moving into acting, appearing in memorable roles on the TV reboot of Hawaii Five-0 and the comedy film ...